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It’s back! Zaleski’s 19th century oil painting of Milan Cathedral returns after disappearing during Warsaw Uprising

The lost artwork which disappeared during the Second World War returned home after being handed over to the National Museum in Warsaw at an official ceremony. Danuta Matloch at Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie / Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego/Facebook

The oil on canvas by one of Poland’s most eminent urban landscape painters shows the vast knave and impressive vaulting inside Milan’s cathedral, which is the largest church in Italy, the third largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world.

‘App-stounding’: new app charts the ebb and flow of Polish history 1914-22

Using maps, animation and audio, the app guides users through eight tumultuous years in the history of Poland.

‘Carfully’ done: From pope mobile to a four-wheeled remnant of Hitler’s 6th Army, the Otrębusy Car Museum has it all

On the outskirts of Warsaw’s lies an intriguing car museum where stories of the vehicles’ pasts mix in with the smell of oil.

The Greatest Myths of the Start of World War 2 - Roger Moorhouse –part 2

Part 2 of a major interview with historian Roger Moorhouse, author of the book First to Fight, filmed at @1939pl. Host: Patrick Ney.

Book on Poland's September campaign premieres in London

A book by British historian Roger Moorhouse entitled 'First to Fight: The Polish War 1939' had its premiere at the Polish embassy in London on Thursday. It tells the story of Poland's resistance during the September campaign.

New website helps families find their forgotten WWII heroes

A new project entitled Ministry of Heroes was launched on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two. Its task is to support information-sharing activities about WWII and Polish and foreign heroes.

Do grisly bloodstains in old apartment block belong to Warsaw Uprising insurgents?

Photos of bloodstains splattered across stairwells have been posted on social media with claims that they are from Polish soldiers who fought against Nazi Germany during the 1944 Uprising. TFN’s Stuart Dowell puts on his detective cap to find out more.

#StolenMemory exhibition of Nazi victims opens in Kraków

An exhibition entitled #StolenMemory, which presents the individual fates of victims of Nazi terror, opened on Tuesday on Bohaterów Getta (Heroes of the Ghetto) Square in Kraków (southern Poland).

Freedom and solidarity are Poland's foundation - PM

"It is extremely important for us in moments of truth to be brave, to have the courage to fight for freedom, for Solidarity and for what is Poland's trademark worldwide," PM Mateusz Morawiecki said on the 39th anniversary of the Jastrzębie Agreements.

Vanishing lives: Descendants of 17th century bearded radicals who fled to Poland from Russia to avoid religious persecution are now facing a new crisis as their numbers slowly dwindle out

It is easy to miss their presence - the three-barred crosses, the wooden banyas and the modest churches – unless you know what to look for. TFN travelled to the regions of Mazury and Suwalszczyzna in north-east Poland to track down the Old Believers, a minority which has almost disappeared, yet which still lingers among the hills, fields and virgin forests in the land of a thousand lakes.

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